Brain development
Subtitle: normal processes and the effects of alcohol and nicotine / edited by Michael W. Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Michael W.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780195183139
Subjects: Developmental toxicology; Neurotoxicology; Alcohol -- Toxicology; Nicotine -- Toxicology; Alcoholism in pregnancy -- Pathophysiology; Pregnant women -- Tobacco use -- Physiological effect; Brain -- drug effects; Brain -- growth & development; Ethanol -- pharmacology; Fetus -- drug effects; Neurons -- drug effects; Nicotine -- pharmacology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Models of neurotoxicity provide unique insight into normal development / Michael W. Miller; title: Cell proliferation / Bernhard Suter and Pradeep G. Bhide; title: Neuronal migration / Huaiyu Hu; title: Neuronal differentiation: from axons to synapses / C. David Mintz ... [et al.]; title: Cell death / Stevens K. Rehen and Jerold J.M. Chun; title: Intracellular pathways of neuronal death / Sandra M. Mooney and George I. Henderson; title: Developmental disorders and evolutionary expectations: mechanisms of resilience / Barbara L. Finlay, Jeremy C. Yost, and Desmond T. Cheung; title: Prenatal alcohol exposure and human development / Claire D. Coles; title: Influence of alcohol on the structure of the developing human brain / Susanna L. Fryer ... [et al.]; title: Prenatal ethanol exposure and fetal programming: implications for endocrine and immune development and long-term health / Joanna H. Sliwowska, Xingqi Zhang and Joanne Weinberg; title: Early exposure to ethanol affects the proliferation of neuronal precursors / Michael W. Miller; title: Effects of ethanol on the regulation of cell cycle in neural stem cells / W. Michael Zawada and Mita Das; title: Mechanisms of ethanol-induced alterations in neuronal migration / Julie A. Siegenthaler and Michael W. Miller; title: Effects of ethanol on mechanisms regulating neuronal process outgrowth / Tara A. Lindsley; title: Neuronal survival is compromised by ethanol: extracellular mediators / Michael W. Miller, Marla B. Bruns, and Paula L. Hoffman; title: Intracellular events in neuronal death targeted by ethanol / Sandra M. Mooney, Michael W. Miller, and George I. Henderson; title: Neural crest and developmental exposure to ethanol / Susan M. Smith and Katherine A. Debelak-Kragtorp; title: Glial targets of developmental exposure to ethanol / Consuelo Guerri; title: Tobacco use during pregnancy: epidemiology and effects on offspring / Jennifer A. Willford, Nancy L. Day, and Marie D. Cornelius; title: Prenatal nicotine exposure and animal behavior / Brenda M. Elliott and Neil E. Grunberg; title: Neuronal receptors for nicotine: functional diversity and developmental changes / Huibert D. Mansvelder and Lorna W. Role; title: Neural precursors as preferential targets for drug abuse: long term consequences and latent susceptibility to cns disorders / Kurt F. Hauser ... [et al.]; title: Nicotinic receptor regulation of developing catecholamine systems / Frances M. Leslie ... [et al.].